Category: Discussions

Can diet determine the future of your mental health? Claire Fitzsimmons attempts to find out through a month of Whole30.

Our last editors’ roundtable of the season, with guest Nick Chrastil.

What we all need to hear right now, with special guest Marisa Siegel, Editor in Chief of The Rumpus.

A Longreads Podcast interview with journalists James K. Williamson and Tim Requarth on writing about family.

Editors discuss the gender politics of music criticism, how young womxn drive conversations around cultural figures, institutionalized discrimination in sport, and more.

Longreads editors chat with Internet culture reporter Taylor Lorenz about ok boomer, TikTok, patriotism, and more.

On the fate of Deadspin, recent longreads on Airbnb and influencers, and the uncanny canon of Wakefield Press.

Workaholics burn the midnight oil, while the rich and powerful fail up.

Longreads editors discuss stories in ProPublica/The New Yorker, Wired, and Esquire.

Longreads editors discuss stories in Miami New Times, The New Yorker, 5280 Magazine, and The Believer.

Longreads editors discuss stories in The New Yorker, The Guardian, and Politico.

Longreads editors discuss recent stories in Inc., The Cut, and The Baffler.

Longreads editors discuss stories in The Baffler, The New York Times Magazine, and the Kenyon Review.

Longreads editors discuss stories in Jezebel, Governing, and The New Yorker.

Longreads editors discuss stories in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and a collaboration between Texas Monthly and The Texas Tribune.

Longreads editors discuss stories in The New York Times Magazine, Eater, and Hakai Magazine.

Longreads editors discuss stories in Slate, The Cut, and The Goods by Vox.

Longreads editors discuss stories in Gay Magazine, The New Yorker, and Topic.

Longreads editors discuss stories in Pacific Standard, The Paris Review, and Topic.

Longreads editors discuss stories in The Cut, Columbia Review of Journalism, The New York Times, and Pacific Standard.

Longreads editors discuss stories in Grub Street, The New Yorker, Gay Magazine, and The Verge.

Longreads editors discuss stories in New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Outline, and CrimeReads.

Longreads editors discuss stories in The Cut, The New Yorker, and The California Sunday Magazine.

Longreads editors discuss stories in Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, Kotaku, and The Globe and Mail.

This week, Longreads editors discuss stories in Outside Magazine, Backchannel (WIRED), and The New York Times: Styles.

Catherine Cusick, Kelly Stout, Ethan Chiel, and Aaron Gilbreath discuss stories by Wil S. Hylton, Josephine Livingstone, Jesse Barron, and Rivka Galchen.

This week, we’re discussing stories in The Cut, Vulture, The New York Times, Topic, and The Atavist.

A conversation between writers Eva Holland, Benjamin Percy, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Mary H.K. Choi, and Adam Sternbergh about writing on both sides of the fiction-nonfiction divide.

It’s time to take another look at the definition of activism and where journalism fits in.

How we feel about a person’s privacy seems to correlate with how much control they have in the decision to open up.